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1-1' -.t;1:«-:z or our...” 1 s days,
Andra-”1.1s.1:x:-u..a.:-:...-;:dfaraway
“ii L I; .lll |'lln.n.ii.‘v MLXS
It's slough-d rout :.1i moms grown.
lt.:- nulls so mull and gray
And the \‘llil' clad stoop where the old folks sat
'1'” rest 1:! the (‘ithr‘ (if dav
Then the dream l1t"('illll(“:l longing
And. [raw-ling far and fast.
I came to the if‘ village where
My cluldln. l‘s years were passed.
And sought the quaint stone mansion.
[int 0. what change was thcre'
Bay windows. 1 onies. and. at
One. end. a porte cocherc
The walls were puznpkln yellow.
The. shiuglcd root' brigat red,
And, at the. side. a rmuleetl tower
Ilearcd high its upstart head
N0 tra ! of home beloved
No signs of days ;:.1:11* lrr
Not c‘cn the long well sweep that used
To point toward the say
I felt as one who. bending
To look it: some old face
Ile loves, beholds it daubczl with rouge.
ll‘rcftofci1ch tlcar
So now, when of i::1pruv
llca talk. my heart 1:
And longs for the stun-1
‘ Elk-121i i:1 llonie-llakcr
Th .‘i:‘.:l,-ri;‘.:121 llr=1minc1 Abroad. '
“I‘ll tell you v.l;:~i i s'tw 1.1 L‘lanchcster,
England." said a f‘.iia-:1.;:..::.lt r who i:.tel\,’1'e-
turned from 1'. tr“) :151;‘o:1 l
register l founzl (L1.-
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France. and i‘» i) to the
It wasu p:1;c::f : - and l smelt ., amuse,
but I \vah‘c:.l.to SJ.‘ any
thing away .\.l:.r :1 few hours ‘11.: called at
‘(_):1 1h». hotel
()f '(,',
and:
ilussizi.‘
czar oi
.-i—v».,..-
,.v 1”,,
my room. 'l‘hczil
drummer fora Chit-:1; 1 cruvlm:
had saved up a few hundred :;:;zl
the tour
“ ‘Il'liat induced you to re.:;i~t.~1" as you
did?" lasketl:n'1.-ra bit.
“ ‘Siniply to receive the 1‘espcciaiid consid-
hhu to be an ex-
lle
house
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oration tillt‘ tnc.’ he replied.
“ ‘Does it chcapen your bill-.4
“ ‘No, not to any extent, but ii. gives me
the best for my money, and l have free car-
riage rides and many i:‘.‘.‘it:‘.tio'.is out iodine.
Man who registers over l :- :iaia :~i.nith
or Brown gets only ('(lllliilllll. his off for
France next week, and i shall 1'e'-‘i.~:4.\.r there
as “Special envoy of the :klllffil'lUllll congress
and Jim Dandy 1'cprc.~.~n‘.at1t.‘e oi" 71),i)U(),UUU
A111ericaus."‘ l’ll get quail on toast when
you fellows have only bacon. Web. >0 long.
I’m off to dinner with a big manufacturer,
and to-morrow I‘m to ride out with an M. P.
and a duke. Take my advice and hitch on a
titlc.”’———I)ett‘oit Free
l’t‘ess.
“There is a liappy Laud."
How many of the Illf.‘l’l.".ti$ who in childhood
have sung "There is a happy laud, far, far
away," know anything of its writer? His
name is Andrew Young, and he is now 50
years of age, still mentally and physically
vigorous and retaining in all its early fresh-
ness his sympathy with children. The hymn
was composed in 1833. The tune to which it
is married is an old Indian air, which blended
with the music of the woods in the primeval
forest long before Sunday schools were
thought of. The hymn was composed for
the melody. Its bright and strongly marked
phrases struck Mr. Young’s musical ear the
first time he heard it casually played in the
drawing room. He asked fogit again and
again. It haunted him. Being accustomed
to relieve the clamor of his thoughts and
feelings in rhyme, words naturally followed,
and so the hymn was created. Mr. Young
happened to have his hymn performed in the
presence of his intimate friend, Mr. Gall, a
member of the publishing firm of Gall &'
Inglis. It got into print. It has been trans-
lated into nineteen different languages. And
yet the author has never received, and, in—
deed, has never been offered, a penny remu-
neration. —New York Tribune.
An Enormous Head.
Monroe Singer, a mulatto boy, 10 years of
age, furnishes what is believed by eminent
specialists the most remarkable case of hy-
drocephalus on record. He was born in Bas‘
trop county, Tex, on the 10th of November.
1879. At birth he weighed twelve pounds,
and was in all respects a well formed child.
At the age of 3 weeks the hydrocephalitic
symptoms began. The doctors tried to check
the disease without any success. The head
continued to enlarge until it weighed thirty
pounds to the body‘s ten. ,. Its present dimen-
sions are: Circumference, 31% inches; from
base of skull to top of frontal bone. 33%
inches.
It looks like nothing in the world so much
as a. most enormous watermelon with a tiny
child’s face stuck on the small end. The
strangest part of the case is found in the
child’s regular appetite, sound digestion,
cheerfulness, freedom from pain and very
high order of intelligence. Indeed the prog-
ress of the affection seems to have quick-
ened instead of dulled the brain—Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph.
Measuring a Note.
A very remarkable discovery has recently
been made by a lady. who has for some time
been making experiments to ascertain the de-
grees of intensity in a. note when sung by the
human voice. While testing the capability
of the “phoneidoscope,” which registers the
air waves produced by the vibration of the
voice, the idea struck her that. if a more sen-
sitive substance were used, the disturbance of
the air could be more accurately registered.
After many attempts she succeeded in finding
the substance which she was in search of, and
her anticipations proved correct. On this
substance Mrs. lVatts Hughes spreads a. thin
layer of colored powder. The membrane is
then placed in a kind of trumpet, into which
a note is sung. The powder, according to the
quality of the note, diffuses itself into the
most wonderful shapes, which are then trans-
ferred to glass by another process. The forms
of flowers and plants seem to be the most
usual. The discovery is attracting much at-
tention among scientific men—New Orleans
Picayune.
Poor, Poor Husband.
Lady (to drug clerk)—-I want a cake of
Lubin’s violet soap for my doggie, and a. piece
of castile soap for my husband. How much
will it all be?
filerk—Lubin. $1; castile, 10 cents; $1.10,
madam.
Lady—My! How dear! You may give
me, a. bar of common yellow soap instead of
the castile.
Clerk—We don’t keep it, ma’am.
Lady (exit furiously)—l thought you called
this a drug store l—Boston Herald.
Brahmin Revlvuls.
The National League of East Indian Brah-
mius propagate their doctrine by lectures
and millions of free pamphlets. Some of the
latter are bold enough to be quite a credit to
the tolerance of British officials, who persist
in ignoring such attacks, though Calcutta
papers sometimes amuse their readers by
translating the diatribes of the chief agita-
tors. One of those malcontents describes an
English functionary as “the local boss blood
sucker," and a. zealous clergyman of the
Church of E gland as a “carnivorous Phari-
see. ”—Draket Magazine.
NORWALK o
ARSENIC EATING.
The Practice, More Largely lndulged in
Thai: ls Generally Supposed.
The evidence given before the coroner and
i magistrates at Liverpool in the Maybrick
, case goes far to confirm the statements made
, from time to time by eminent physicians that
. the practice of eating arsenic is largely in-
? dulgcd in in various parts of the world.
When Professor Johnstonc, in his “Chemis-
try of Common Life.” first called attention
to the internal use of arsenic over thirty
years ago, his statement was received with
surprise and derision.
The truth of his assertion was, however,
fully demonstrated, especially as regards the
Austrian province of Styx-la. About two
years ago an Austrian physician published
his observations on the mental and physical
; condition 'of several arsenic eaters who had
been in the habit of taking- varying quanti—
ties of ordinary white arsenic or red orpimcnt
at intervals for a long period. i
The presence of the poison in the urine
-AZETTE, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1889.
l
showed the average dose taken daily to be 5
1 nearly half a grain, or three times the largest
dose prescribed in medicine. Physically the
persons examined were quite up to the aver-
r‘a'gc, while mentally and intellectually they
. on the. formation of fat.
Some
were in no sense below their neighb ' '.
wcrcthinmtlngrs abnormally sLout, :;:::l the
habit did not appear to have any influence
None of the cases
, showed symptoms of slow chronic poi<onin;.;,
t
1
. Sidncv ,
and the cause alleged by most of the persons
for giving way to the practice was that the
drug has a strengthening i;:.'.ue1;:-e on th»
digestive organs. Another ' : dive for it'-: 1:;
especially mutingr girls. 1‘. '
the. conmlsxicu. rend-3:11;; :...:;:1 .~;-:_::; ‘
and clear.
According to Dr. Buckner, arsenic i; liabilr 3‘
ually mixed with the. dishes served upon the .
tables of young l'ulies’ i1<1x::1‘dinj; schools in
Switzerland.
This rcmarkabkg statement receives confir-
mation from the transactions of the Amer-
ican Pharmaceutical confercnc } in New York
last year. Among the subjects diseased at
that conference was the use of “arsenical
complexion wafers," and the questions which
the pharmacists sought to settle were how
much arsenic did the-a: wafers usually 'con—
tain,.'1nr.lwl1:.1t were the ill ctl'ects, it' any,
arising from their use. From these and
other facts it- secms that that “.ctise is more
general than is connuonly s1 used. Young
persons are better able, it is said, to assimi-
late the drug than middle aged or old people.
but persons who have once lialzituate-zl thera-
sclves to arsenic eating cannot lay it as =
and it is avcrrcd that if ever they are pre-
vented from obtaining their daily dose
they experience all the pains and horrors of
slow arscnical poisoning.—Ncwcastlo (ling;-
land) Chronicle.
led Cloud's Fourth of July Speech.
Among the features of the “Fourth” cclc-
bration at Chad ron was the speech of the
celebrated Indian chief, lied Cloud. Ho wa-
introduced to the audience by L. J. F. Iacgcr.
“Ladies and gentlemen: I will say some;
thing to you this evening, and I want you all
to listen to me, please. I was asked to come
and see you and celebrate the great Fourth
of July, and to show you how the Indians
dance, but Ihavc something to tell you be
sides that. I have told you many times be-
fore that all you people were my friends, and
I hope that. all our children will love each
other like brothers and children in the future,
as if we were all born of one woman.
“The Great Father sent commissioners here
to try to bulldoze me like a child, and try to
take my land away from me. They told me
that if I did not give the land up it would be
just like a big fish in a pond with little fish,
the big ones would eat the little ones all up.
They said that the white people would take
all the good lands from me, and that I would
have nothing left but bad lands, when I
would starve to death. They said that if I
had a big stone wall around me the white
people would get over it, and that if I did
not sign the paper there would be no more
Indians—they would be wiped out. But I
,am no child.
“They came to me like a child, and so I did
not sign the paper. The Great Father has
bothered me so much about my land that I
am getting tired of it. I have told him that
I will never give him any more of my land,
and I want you all to understand me. The
Great Father has made many treaties with
me and my people, but never kept his word
when the time came to pay the money to
make his word good. I am chief of the whole
Sioux nation, and l have promised my peo-
ple that I would never sign any more of my
land away, and I am going to keep my word.
In all treaties with the Great Father I was
always cheated, and so were my people. I
do not like to make a fuss over this, for I
Want to be friends to you all. This land
where Chadron is now is mine, and was
stolen from me in the treaty of 1868. I want
you all to be my friends. I would say more,
but I do not feel well. Good-by.”—Omaha
Herald.
»Another Kind of License.
An amusing incident, as well as an embar-
rassing one to the parties concerned. occurred
in the county clerk’s office recently. About
3 o’clock a young lady, probably 21 years of
age, walked up to the marriage license desk,
accompanied by an elderly lady, presumably
her mother.
“I want a. license,” she said to Deputy
Daniels. “This is the place, is it?”
“Yes," replied the deputy: “the name.
please.”
The young lady gave her name, and then
the clerk asked: “Do you reside in the coun—
ty?”
“Yes, Ilive here." And after a few more
such interrogatories Daniels was in the act
of laying down his pen when the lady ven-
tured the question: “Do I have to put the li-
cense on the dog’s collar?”—Indianapolis
Journal.
Fondness for Old Jokes.
It is a. curious fact that despite all this talk
about baldheaded jokes, the average attend-
ant at the minstrels is never so happy as
when he hears a jest that reminds him of the
days of yore. The Tourist was at the rink
last night and easily recognized many of the
jokes as old acquaintances, but he didn’t
grow], nudge the man on the adjoining seat
and remark that he had heard that last one‘
away back in ’63. Not a. bit of it. The‘ old
jokes are the best, and the Tourist enjoys
them. So does everybody else. But it has
become the popular thing to scoff when they
appear, limping, perhaps, on crutches, but
for all that, secretly in our heart of hearts
we entertain a. love for fun that. will never
grow cold—Albany Journal.
A Reporter Knocked Out.
Reporter (breathlessly)—-The people say
there has been asuicide here.
Landlady—Yes; a young woman — Ann
Blank.
Reporter (rapidly writes; —- Miss Annie
Blank, the young and beautiful daughter
of— Who was her father?
Landlady—Mr. A. Z. Blank, of Chicago.
Reporter (continues writing)—A. Z. Blank,
of Chicago, killed herself at her boarding
house, No. 1234 Nine Hundred and Ninth
street, yesterday, because-— What did she
kill herself for? «
Landlady—Becauso she was so homely.—
New York Weekly.
Independent.
“The king,” said Augustus Hare. "is the
least independent man in his dominion—the
beggar the most so." An anecdote of an ec-
centric Oxford beggar illustrates the ,-latter
part of Hare’s aphorism.
A person of dishonest character met. the
beggar one day as he was walking without
shoes or stockings.
“Call at my house, and I will give you a
pair of shoes,” said the man.
“Excuse me, sirl” answered the beggar.
"I would not stand in your shoes for all the
world!"
A striking illustration of the independence
which is the child of contentment and self
respect. is one told of the father of an English
bishop. Ben Hiuchlifl'c drove a hackney
coach. Ills industry made him the owner of
a livery stable in London, and enabled him
to send his son to Oxford. The son graduated
with honors, entered the church. and became
bishop of Pet'crborough.
One day the bishop came to the livery
stable kccicr and said: “Father, you must
be tired of business, and must wish to retire
into the country and live in your own way.
Four or five hundred pounds a year are at
your service.”
“L‘To, Jack,” answered the independent
father. “I will stay where I am. lam proud
of you, and I hope. you are not ashamed of
me. All lhavc I have earned, and it shall
never be said that old llcn I'Iinchlil'i'e was in-
debt 9:1 to his son (,)1~t'.)z111;.'ni:ni living for his
live;lho::d."’—-You‘th‘s Companion.
Scrvian “'calth in Hogs.
The real industrial wealth of Servia lies in
" i;.;.i. Out of a population of £2,000,000,
,000 walk on four legs with an indcpen»
' 1‘. nt air, a sort of “a pig and a brother” as-
sumption of cocqual rights and privik-g‘s.
’i'he t—zcrviaa pig is certainly a remarkable
animal, and no other pig is so self assertive,
so strong, or so hairy as he. We have seen
5 one of them while driving alongr by the side
of his master, insist on alighting where be
pleased, which happened to be over the splash
board. No persuasion or argument could in-
(lacc him to alter his mind, and it was not till
he had tripped up the pony and upset the cart
that he was satisfied.
The mature hog's coat. is of a deep red
brown and as curly as a retricvcrls, turning
to long gray bristles down his back as he ad-
vances. in years. His presence is everywhere
visible or audible. He crops out on every
hillside and from every thicket and copse,
endllincs the banks of the Danube in 111111-
dreds. while the train that carries you away
from llslgrade will cross tracks packed with
squealing porkcrs and taxing imagination to
cont-eive by what ingenuity the beasts were
ever induced to enter and be penned. thcn
We remember that King Alexander‘s great-
grandfathcr was a swine border at Takovo,
we must further allow the pig his niche in
Scrvian history to add to his commercial i111-
portancc and artistic value—Saturday Ro-
view.
lcc “'atcr.
There is a great deal of sentiment and
many opinions regarding the use of ice water
that vanish when the light of reason and .x—
pericnce is turned upon them. The fact is,
that ice water, drank slowly and in moderate
quantities, constitutes a. healthful and in-
vigorating drink. There is no doubt that ice
is a great sanitary agent, and every family
ought to be provided with it during the
warmer months of the year. It. is true that
the inordinate use of ice water, or its use under
some special conditions and circumstances, is
attended with great danger, so is the im—
proper use of any other drink or food. The
assumption that iced water is dangerous, and
that iced tea, or iced coffee, or iced lemonade
is a harmless substitute is simply a delusion
As the source of danger feared by some is the
degree of cold, we fail to see clearly how
flavor modifies the effect of temperature.
There are some individuals, undoubtedly,
who cannot drink ice water without injury,
and who ought never to use it, but to a great,
majority of persons it is refreshing and
healthful. Its use, temperate and discreet, is
in no way to be condemned, which cannot be
said of some of its substitutes—Sanitary
Volunteer.
The Sound Philosophy of a Sucker.
“Why don’t you cultivate a little style?"
asked a Trout of a Sucker whom he happened
to meet. “ Tby do you insist on living in
this mud hole and never visit the clear, cold
springs? Lim ber up“ your body and hire
somebody to get a section of a rainbow and
sprinkle it over you. I would not live like
you for anything, grabbing away all the
time for a meal in the mud. Flies form a de-
licious diet. J ust look at that beauty there
which has just dropped on the water. Just
watch me take him and then envy the life of
a. Trout.”
Saying this, the Trout made a dash for the
fly and seized it. But the fly had buried in
it a steel hook, and on the book was a line,
and on the line a rod, and an angler held the
rod. The Trout soon disappeared from the
water, and the next noise he made was when
he was sizzling over a. fire.
' “It may be nice enough to be a Trout,”
philosophized the Sucker, “but I would rath-
er be a poor, despised Sucker with no rain-
bow attachments in a. mud hole than a proud
Trout in a. frying pan.”—-—New York Herald.
Hard to Bear.
No one ever had more genuine delight in
the possession of land, and its accompanying
wealth of growth and bloom, than did Emer-
son in his orchard. Some caviler said to
him: “Your pears cost you more than mine.
which I buy ;” and the answer was ready.
“Yes, they are costly, but we all have ex-
pensive vices You play at billiards, I at
pear trees.”
A public spirited citizen, he took pleasure
in sending to the “cattle show exhibition”
specimens of fruit from his garden. One day,
after this exhibition. a party of gentlemen
visited his orchard, and were introduced to .
him by his neighbor as a. committee of the
Massachusetts Horticultural society. He
smiled with modest pride at having his or-
chard thus honored, but; the chairman said:
“Mr. Emerson, the committee have called
to see the soil which produces such poor
specimens of such fine varieties.”
It may have been a damp year, and the
pears were rusty, but, as his son writes:- “In
all years the proprietor saw the gold through
the rust.”—Youth’s Companion.
Plaster Paris {or Flooring Purposes.
A new process for hardening plaster of
Paris, making that substance suitable for
flooring purposes, has been communicated to
the French Academy of Sciences by M. J ulte.
The plaster is mixed with one-sixth of its
weight of flne,‘freshly slaked lime and used
with as little water as possible. After it is
thoroughly dry it is treated with a. saturated
solution of either zinc sulphate or iron sul‘
phate. With the first the hardenedlplaster
remains white, while the second by gradual
oxidation yields the color of iron rust, which
gives a fine imitation of mahogany under an
application of linseed oils—Chicago Tribune.
Nothing but 3 Sheet of Water.
"Can you tell me why the lake freezes over
so quickly in the fall?”
“I don’t know; but perhaps it is because it
sleeps without anything over it. ”—Boston
Herald.
1
-was much needed on the island.
Made His Fortune on a Single Cargo.
Many a Maine fortune was made in the
West India trade in olden times, but few in
the way told of :1 Portland captain. Toward
the close of the lastcentury this captain
sailed from Portland with a. cargo of lumber
for San Domingo. Arriving at his destina-
tion, he found Toussaint, the negro leader, in
possession of the island and was afraid to
land. As he was about to put to sea again
his ship was boarded by a squad of negro
troops under command of the renowned
Christophe, zuid urged to land, as lumber
Noticing
that the ship’s papers bearing the autograph
of the president of the United States, as was
the custom in those days, made a great im-
pression on Christophe, the captain concluded
to try theircfl’cct on Toussaint. Accordingly
he landed, and, furnished with an escort by
Christophe, marched to the camp of the
leader. This personage upon being told that
a messenger with a letter from the president
of the United States desired an interview
with him, readily accorded it, and the result
of the interview was that the lumber was ex-
changed for an equal quantity of coffee,
sugar and other goods of the captain‘s selec-
tion, exchanging bulk for bulk. No ship
cvcr sailed carrying so rich a cargo obtained
upon such favorable terms. The fortune of
the captain was made. He retired from the
sea and settled down to a prosperous life in
l’ortlanil.—~ Lewiston Journal.
Honesty Rewarded.
An oyster andplain dealer on \‘cscy street
set out a basket of fresh claims in front of his
store the other day and tacked up a ncatlittlc
card announcing the price. A bootblack
sauntcred byswiuging his box and brushes
and gently transferred one of the luscious bi-
valves into his pocket. A ncwsboy standing
near observed the act, and in a second he had
imitated the. bootblack‘s action with gratify-
ing success. The boys both grinned, crossed
vcr to the other side of the street and inno-
cently strolled up the. block. In another
moment they again passed the basket, and
again rewarded themselves with another
clam. Six times did the gamins pass the
basket, and not once did they miss their prize.
A policeman lounged on the opposite of the
street in full view of the piratical expeditions
across the way. Finally one of the boys,
probably having come to the conclusion that
honesty was the best policy, turned his clams
over to his partner and disappeared in a
neighboring stall. lle reappeared in a fnv
minutes with a small sign reading, “Take
one,” which he deftly substituted for the
price list. He then went in and innocently
informed the proprietor that some wicked
boy had changed his Sign and that 110 Would
soon be out a basket of clams. “hen the
proprietor saw the sign and the diminished
number of clams be thanked the boy warmly
and told him to take a pockctful for himself.
—Ncw York lVorld.
Witchcs‘ Plants.
In most countries certain plants are to be
found associated with witches and their craft.
Shakespeare causes one of his witches to dis-
course of root of “hemlock digg’d i’ the
dark ;” likewise also of “slips of yew silver’d
in the moon’s eclipse.” Vervain was in olden
times known as “the cnchantcr’s plant,” rue,
again, was regarded as an antidote against
their spells and machinations. Their par-
tiality for certain trees is well known. Ac-
cording to Grimm, the trysting place of the
Neapolitan witches was a walnut tree near
Benevento. In walnut and elder trees they
are also said to be in the habit of lurking at
night fall. Witches, too, had their favorite
flowers. Among these the foxglove was
known as the “witches’ bells;” the harebell as
the “witches’ thimbles.” Tradition asserted
that on moonlight nights they might be seen
flying through the air, mounted on the stems
of the ragwort, reeds or bulrushes. Through-
out-Germany it is believed that Witches ca-
reer through the midnight skies on hay.
Many plants were pressed into the service of
charms and spells for the detection of witches
and evil spirits when wandering about on
their nefarious errands, particularly the St.
John’s wort, still largely worn by the Ger-
man peasantry as a kind of amulet on St.
John’s eve—Gentleman’s Magazine.
Superstitions About Plants.
It was an old belief that all baptized per-
sons whose eyes had been steeped in the
green juice of the inner bark of the elder
tree would be enabled to detect witches any-
where. The samc property, according to
German folk lore, is possessed by the Wild
radish, ivy and saxifrage on Walpurgis
night. Among other plants which have had
the reputation of averting the crafts and
subtleties of witchcraft the juniper, holly,
mistletoe, little pimpernel, herb paris, cycle.-
men, angelica, herb betony, rowan tree,
bracken and twigs of the ash may be men-
tioned. In the Rhine district the water lily
is regarded as antagonistic to sorcery. Lav-
ender is believed in Tuscany to possess the
power of. averting the evil eye. Olive
branches are said to keep the witches from
the cottage doors in the rural districts of It-
aly, and the Russian peasantry will lay aspen
upon the grave of a. witch to prevent her
spirit from walking abroad or exercising any
evil influence over her neighbors—Gentle-
man’s Magazine.
Girls Kept in Cages.
United States Consul Griffin, stationed at
Sydney, N. S. W., tells of a remarkable cus-
tom of the inhabitants of New Britain, as
follows: “The inhabitants, it is said by Wal-
lace, have a. peculiar custom of confining
their girls in cages until they are old enough
to be married. This custom is said to be pe-
culiar to the people of New Britain. The
cages are made of the palm tree, and the girls
are put into them when 2 or 3 years of age.
The Rev. George Brown established a Wes-
leyan mission in New Britain in 1876, and I
learn from him that these cages are built in-
side of the houses, and that the girls are
never allowed to leave the house under any
circumstances. The houses are closely fenced
in with a. sort of wicker work made of reeds.
Ventilation under the circumstances is ren-
dered difficult. The girls are said to grow up
strong and healthful in spite of these disad-
vantages. ”—New York Telegram.
Japanese Horticulture.
Japanese horticulture shows a. wonderful
patience and a. sort of ill directed skill. The
object of the Japanese uyekiya, like that of
his Chinese brother, but in a. greater degree,
is to deform, maim and cripple nature, as we
see especially in the dwarfing of trees and
shrubs-nanization, as Dr. Rein somewhat
pedantically terms the process, which consists
mainly in starving the plant and crippling
the circulation of its juices. Kaempfer is
quoted as describing a. trio be once saw in a
small box one and a. half inches broad, four
inches long and six inches deep, for which the
price of £100 was asked. The three denizens
‘of the box were a. bamboo, a. blossoming plum
tree and a pine tree, perfectly formed, but in
a. piccolo. —New York News.
A Suggestion.
Old Richfellow (dosperatcly)—If you refuse
me, what is there left for me to do?
Sweet Girl-«Well, I read the other day
about a rich man who made his will in favor
of the woman who refused him, and then
went out and hung himself.—;New York
Weekly
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News Atout Towu.
It is the current report about town that
Kemp’s Balsam for the throat and lungs ,
is making some remarkable cures with
people who are troubled with coughs,
sore throat, asthma, bronchitis and con-
sumption. Any druggist will give you a
trial bottle free of cost. It is guaranteed
to relieve and cure. The large bottles are
500. and 551.
What is it that will give a cold, cure a
cold and paythc doctor’s bill ?—A draught.
Hay Fever.
I have been a pcriodicahsuffercr from
hay fcvcc smcc the summer of ‘1879, and
until I used Ely’s Cream Balm “as never ,‘
able to find relief. I can truthfully say
that Cream Balm cured me. I regard it
as of great value and would not be with-
out it during the hay fever season —-L.
M. Georgia, Binghamton, N. Y.
The father of all diseases is impure
blood. when loaded with
How important then that the blood should
be pure, rich, and strong, without which
there can be no health. To purify the
, ycars’ standing have been cured.
3$|,000 REWARD
foul lnnnor. ,
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A few months ago 1 commenced to use 1“. F. F
Nos. 1 and 2,1’01' baldness on :he crown of my
heart. The spot is all haired over, and looks as
good as the rest of my head I am very much
pleased, and would highly recommend it to any
one who is bald or wants‘thickcr hair./
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Does not con to in any
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It will .911cm y bring about anew growth of hair unless
the roots are entirely dried up, which occurs in nql
‘ more than five cases out of a. hundred. Cases of 2']
If this is
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FAIRICON Nos. 1 and 2. price . per bottle is for
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. per bottle is invaluable as 13. HAIR DRESSER. It will
blood Sulphur Bitters is comparably the ,
best medicine that it is possible to obtain.
—[’l‘hc Editor.
What does a man take when 11c has a
mean wife ?—llc takes an elixir (he licks
her.)
What is the difference between a dog‘s
tail and a rich man ?—()nc keeps a trap;-
gin and the other keeps a carriage.
No one knows better than those who
have used Carter’s Little Liver Pills what
relief they have given when taken for
dyspepsia, dizziness, pain in the side, con-
stipation. and disordered stomach.
W'hy is it easy to get. into an old man’s
house ?———l3ccausc his gait is broken and
his locks are l'cw.
and a pretty woman ?—()nc faces the
powder and the other powders the face.
\Ve think we can care abad case of
backache quicker with one of Cartei’s
Smart Weed and Belladonna Ilackachc
Plastcrs, than by any other application,
and after the backache is cured, you can
still wear the plaster without discomfort
for two or three weeks or longer. This
combination of Smart chd and Belladon
an is a great hit, and it is hard to find any
pain or ache that will not yield to it.
Price 25 cents. Sold by druggists every-
where.
What is the difference between an en-
ginccr and a school teacher ?#Onc trains
the mind and the other minds the train.
I can cheerfully recommend Ely’s Cream
Balm to the suffering public for hav fcvcr
ann stoppage of the nasal passages. I
have tricd it. and find it gives immediate
relief—J. L. Rector, Little Rock, Ark.
Why is a. man who makes pcns vcry
wicked ?—I‘Ic makes people steel pens and
tcll them they do write.
Why is a city official like a church bell?
—Onc steals from the people and the
other pcals from the steeple.
001. Clark, U. S. Armv, writes: For
the last two years, my health has been ex-
cellent; this, I think, is due to my using
Sulphur Bitters, as formerly my health
was miserable, owing to the frequent
changes of climate. ctc., so incident to a
soldier’s life.
What is the difference between an apple
and a pretty girl ?—Onc you squeeze to
get cider, and the other you get ’siile her
to squeeze.
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us on receipt ofpricc. Send for history of the remedy
and genuine testimonials fromthose who have used it.
Cut this out and send to some bald-headed friend.
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3llHEUMATISIVl‘Il—Il__E NEURALGIA
These twin diseases cause untold suffering.
Doctors admit that they are difficult to cure—
so do their patients. Painc’s
Celery Compound has per-
manently cured the worst
cases of rheumatism and
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have used it.
“Having been troubled
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and foot for five years, 1 was
almost unable to get around,
and was very often confined
to my bed for weeks at a
time. I used only one bot-
. tlc of Paine’s Celery Com-
pound, and was perfectly
cured. I can now jump
around. and feel as lively as
’ abo .” FRANK Canon.
= Eureka, Nevada.
$1.00. Six for $5.00. Drugglsts.
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“ Palne‘s Celery Compound has been a God-
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nearly four bottles of the Compound, and am
free from the complaint. I feel very grateful
to you.” CHAS. ll. LEWIS, Central Village. Ct.
Paine’s
Celery Compound
“I have been greatly afflicted with acute
rheumatism, and could find no relief until I
used Palnc’s Celery Compound. After using
slx bottles or this medicine 1 am now cured of
rheumatic troubles."
SAMUEL Hurcnmson, So. Cornish, N. 11.
Effects Lasting Cures.
Paine’sCelcry Compound has performed many
other cures as marvelous as these,—coples of
letters sent to any address. Pleasant to take.
does not disturb, but. aids digestion, and entire-
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use or suffering longer with rheumatism or
neuralgia?
Happy, Hearty. It is Unequaled.
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I B A B I ES szng upon Lactated Food are He y,
BRIGGS’
HE ADACH E-:-TBOCHES *
———-FOR
’ SICK HEADACHE,
——-—-IN ITS-—
Nervous, Billions or Congestive Forms.
____‘_<*.>_
This Remedy is the Prescription of one of the leading Physicians of Paris
France,and was used by him with unparalleled success for over thirty years,
and was first given to the Public as a Proprietary Medicine in 1878, and
since that time it has found its way into almost every country on the face
of the Globe, and become a favorite remedy withzth'ousands of the leading
physicians.
Medical societies have discussed its marvelous success at their
annual conventions, and after their official chemist {have analyzed it and
found that it contained no opiates, bromides, or other harmful ingredients,
quietly placed it among their standard remedies.
TESTIMONIAL-
L. R. BROWN, M. D., )
23 West Jersey St.. n
ELIZABETH, N. J ., June 28th, 1889. )
This is to certify that I have used for some months with much satisfaction, the combi-
nation of remedies, for Headache, known as Briggs’ Headache Troches. The remedy cures
more headaches, especially such as effect Nervous Women than anything I am acquainted
with, and if this certificate will be the means of bringing it to the favorable attention of
sufferers from that trouble, I shall feel that I have done them a service. .
L. R. BROWN, M. 1).
PRICE. 25 CENTS.
SOLD BY. H. R. HALE, NORWALK.'CONN.
BEIGE-5’ mnnIcINE company,
ELIZABETH, N. J.
Norwalk Chronicler